Contrarian Investor UK

Year to forget for many AIM oil and gas investors

Looking at the table above of the share prices for many popular AIM oil and gas shares at the beginning…

2012 Hedge Fund performance – Lambrusco party for some and Champagne for others

Dan Loeb, Third point Many hedge funds have delivered meagre returns, yet again, in 2012 after a disappointing 2011. Most…

Xcite Energy’s new Rupert Cole video fails to boost short term sentiment

A rather underwhelming response to the video released on Friday afternoon by Xcite Energy featuring Chief Executive, Rupert Cole, with…

How long before HMV turns out the lights?

  HMV Group looks like it’s likely to be next victim on the British High street after a catalogue of…

Buffett resorts to $1.2 billion buy back after acquisition deals prove either somwhat elusive or too expensive

News out today that Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has spent $1.2 billion buying back 9,200 of its class A shares…

Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury makes tidy $23 billion profit on AIG

The expensive (£1.2 trillion at one point) and currently loss making bail out’s of British financial institutions by the U.K.…

Telegraph tipster Questor questions Falkland Oil and Gas investment

The Telegraph’s Questor wrote a piece on Falkland Oil and Gas over the weekend, highlighting how low the share price…

Apple shares continue their rollercoaster after yesterdays biggest one day drop in four years

Apple’s shares fell 6.4% yesterday to finish at $539 wiping $35 billion off its market capitalisation and marking the worst…

Shanghai composite bounces off 4 year low as new leadership meets

Its a topsy turvy world for Chinese stocks right now. The Shanghai composite index rallied 2.8% today, after dropping to…

USOP is just the latest company to take a swipe at the bulletin board trolls

Back in August 2010 Nighthawk Energy and Nostra Terra Oil and Gas (NTOG) took legal action against several bulletin board…